
“You do,” I assured him quite calmly. “That is why I am here.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAxkjwlFX8lI
“How are you acquainted with any of them?” He asked quite seriously, and only425Please respect copyright.PENANA1TAUN4QV3T
then did his eyes seem to notice my hair, which was blue all over except for its still425Please respect copyright.PENANAvxZyKGFzbv
black tips. “You’re quite the odd one.” He admitted, while he was far from what anyone425Please respect copyright.PENANA9X3xTxlKT2
would deem as ´normal´. “And I do not need my bigger glasses to see that.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAvi86aCOSPA
“Here. This is for you,” I tried to hand him my big notebook, the one that had been425Please respect copyright.PENANA2f7UYef7LQ
resting safely beside me. Almost falling out of it was a whole compendium of drawings425Please respect copyright.PENANAtGvJaRkRFe
and other poorly attached notes. “Father wanted you to have it.” I nudged it towards425Please respect copyright.PENANAeNTc0GF8uV
him. “He also wanted me to go with you.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAYKcAbQNkZm
“Father, you say?” He cautiously asked as he refused the offer, “I am afraid I will have425Please respect copyright.PENANAAINcMXEvOd
to doubt that. You see little one, I am not one with many friends, let alone associates.”425Please respect copyright.PENANATlSvTYfyyg
He then took a few steps back “No, you must be mistaken. But fret not, you may425Please respect copyright.PENANAsHAH2emka7
accompany me back to my place, if you so wish of course. After all, it is not proper to425Please respect copyright.PENANAynsD5wRodu
leave one so small and meek behind, especially in a place like this. Old Gorliochi over425Please respect copyright.PENANAyaJcNodeb2
there,” His eyes went straight towards that beast; this one was completely relaxed even425Please respect copyright.PENANAkKLvr5VBTw
if its jaws kept finding one thing or another to chew on, “he can easily carry the both425Please respect copyright.PENANAF2SLU26UHg
of us for as long as necessary. He has been with me for many seasons now, lending a425Please respect copyright.PENANATlGbQ4tVmK
hand in the carrying of all sorts of things.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAhwEKePIVKY
He smiled, but it was a ruse that could not hope to work on the likes of one such as425Please respect copyright.PENANAP3FBdXYnol
me. “Like all sorts of flowers and fungi that I so often like to come and find in these425Please respect copyright.PENANAYJy5ySOkQE
parts... Or even -”425Please respect copyright.PENANAa1VQAdDE3E
“You are no mere flower picker or mushroom gatherer.” I said as I kept forcing that425Please respect copyright.PENANAJ53gTSzWtv
notebook onto him. “Go on, take it. You are the Thinker-Tinker, and you are meant425Please respect copyright.PENANAyk8lcmnviC
to read it.”425Please respect copyright.PENANA0c03yO8nSz
A short silence stood between the two of us ...425Please respect copyright.PENANAfmeGuFixGb
“Your father, who is he then?” He eventually asked, even if his interests appeared425Please respect copyright.PENANAu1ddxVcFvl
to be dwindling the more he was going through those notes and drawings, “I know425Please respect copyright.PENANAZHsYxSlxEC
many of the names inscribed here.” He kept confessing, as he tipped his glasses just425Please respect copyright.PENANAOt4uwZDLnw
in time to prevent them from falling off his curved nose; and then he looked at me425Please respect copyright.PENANAj5scqTUxG0
with refulgent eyes: “Some of these people, they are in these drawings of yours as well!425Please respect copyright.PENANAONmCLKqmaG
And this man here; a Kharn. He is my friend. A dear one.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAhZJXp6BhP0
“That is Father,” I said to his amazement ...425Please respect copyright.PENANAgpsAPs5zrb
A long pause took over his person.425Please respect copyright.PENANAEa415lhMVj
Many of his past fears but also promises came to haunt him, and without a425Please respect copyright.PENANAajQVoxoqsx
moment’s notice, his head became occupied with all sorts of questions and possibilities.425Please respect copyright.PENANA5jpj2JBbZi
There were so many ´If ’s´ and ´Buts´ and ´What’s´ swirling in his mind - and in425Please respect copyright.PENANAK03WHaku3Y
the end all I heard him think to himself was: “This is likely to bring me quite the425Please respect copyright.PENANAJsOQkcghIc
unwanted trouble, but if there is any chance of truth to it, at all; of a real connection425Please respect copyright.PENANAjTjBwUQGr6
between this little one and that ol’ fool... What choice do I have?”425Please respect copyright.PENANA1cV3VQAlNL
“Who are you girl?” his eyes swelled up as he confronted me again, “and how did425Please respect copyright.PENANADjCIZBFLyG
you get your hands on all this?”425Please respect copyright.PENANAyZnsfvzzJx
“As I said, all of it was wrought by my hand.”425Please respect copyright.PENANALFDIKIZ8pM
“You wrote...” His eyes travelled between note and drawing alike “all this?425Please respect copyright.PENANAluvo2qty2c
What made you do such a thing?” He asked with his eyes now trembling with425Please respect copyright.PENANAm4haSG5yG6
restlessness.425Please respect copyright.PENANAgaTzcXaj4r
“And then you will read it?”425Please respect copyright.PENANAcJQ84v50ee
“Oh, I most definitely will. The spark of curiosity has already been lit inside me.”425Please respect copyright.PENANATSRoBcnEbx
He then reassured me further, “My interest has already peaked way past the point of425Please respect copyright.PENANAynG3pWXZ7O
arousal, don’t you worry.” And after he weighed all of it with both hands; “But I will425Please respect copyright.PENANAdOt3soLfTn
have to do so back at my place. You understand that this is quite a lot to go through?”425Please respect copyright.PENANADagiwUb4yF
“Quite,” I replied after I added a few extra notes I had on my person.425Please respect copyright.PENANAbxTk862rcW
“Besides, I don’t have my reading glasses on me.” He added somewhat flippantly425Please respect copyright.PENANAhMQZAB8r6h
“I mean why would I bring them; you know? It’s not like I get to meet little girls425Please respect copyright.PENANAI5RkwZOLP6
carrying tomes for me regularly.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAbFNvgXLJHq
I nodded in concordance, and then he suggested we should make haste. Insisting, as425Please respect copyright.PENANAJs6MGOxEi2
we made our way to that beast, that I should tell him, or rather prepare him, for what425Please respect copyright.PENANACkHEDeHytf
could be in store inside that notebook.425Please respect copyright.PENANAKAvf4WMxQX